A poisonous Frankengrass ... or not

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It's been a bad week for CBS News. Now, former NASW President Deborah Blum takes issue with a post about cattle poisoned by genetically-modified Bermuda grass: "The problem was that the story was only partly right," Blum writes on the Knight Science Journalism Tracker. "The grass, called Tifton 85, was producing cyanide (more about that later). But it was not genetically-modified grass." CBS later posted a correction attributing the gaffe to a local Texas TV affiliate.

June 27, 2012

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